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2 unusual facts about Warrington and Newton Railway


Haydock collieries and foundry

The collieries were served by railways which linked to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Warrington and Newton Railway.

Warrington and Newton Railway

The line ran for 4.5 miles (7.24 km) from a junction west of Newton-le-Willows with the L&MR at Newton Junction (now Earlestown) to the original Dallam Lane terminus in Warrington just north of the town centre, with a short south-western branch towards Bank Quay.



see also

Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway

The line, which was the first long-distance railway in the world, ran from Curzon Street railway station in Birmingham to Dallam in Warrington, Cheshire, where it made an end-on junction with the Warrington and Newton Railway, a branch of the L&M.